Picture Hell for a moment. What do you imagine? … It probably involves some combination of extreme heat, massive overcrowding, and enternity. Got that mental image queued up? Good, because that’s also what my daily commute in Washington is like.
Read all about the governments mobile hell after the jump.
Every morning I trudge through the freezing cold of Northern Virginia (often confused for Northern Alaska) to my Metro station. Next is the interminable platform wait, since Metro trains are incapable of running on time, followed by something closely approximating hell. Me and 200 or so of my closest friends cram into a metro car contructed to comfortably carry 75. When they roll, slowly and puntucated by frequent and jarring stops, to our destination a few miles away. The cars are equipped with heating and AC, but because it’s January, the heta is obvioulsy on. By the time I get to work, only 4 stops from my house, I am usually sweating like a pig and have been groped by 7 or 8 people.
My point here is that the morning commute on Metro is miserable. Almost always. One of the many things I look forward to when I get to San Francisco is not having to cram onto a subway every morning. Since I don’t know where I’m living on where the office is, I’m obviously not sure how I will commute. Given the limited range of the BART, I imagine it will be some combination of walking, biking, or Muni buses, all of which are a huge improvement over the DC Metro.
What’s up with all the complaining? I thought you liked it in DC
I love DC, but the mass transit system (though widespread) is not the citiex strong point.